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I would suggest two avenues: - making data easily accessible and publishing our own narratives - building better consensus mechanisms, which can be federated
by bopbeepboop 5y ago
I would suggest two avenues:
- making data easily accessible and publishing our own narratives
- building better consensus mechanisms, which can be federated in nature
One of our problems in the US is the media spreading its own misinformation — eg, hyper focusing on a few dozen wrongfully killed black men, while ignoring the thousands dead from depolicing. That kind of misinformation for the sake of narrative has literally killed thousands of Americans.
Contrarily, Russian “misinformation” tends to focus on actual but inconvenient facts — such as US institutions suppressing negative coverage of the Bidens, emphasizing Bidens racist/sexist policies, emphasizing the hypocrisy of the wealthy, etc.
We can’t fight foreign influence operations by way of selective truth telling by bolstering the domestic propaganda — as these programs tend to suggest.
We must innovate better tools for an informed citizenry.